עֹ֫מֶר
sheaf
‘sheaf’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H6016 appears in the Book of Exodus — 6 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Exodus
- Exodus 16:16 עֹ֣מֶר n c ms This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded: "Gather of it everyone according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the number of your persons, shall you take it, every man for those who are in his tent."
- Exodus 16:18 בָ/עֹ֔מֶר prep + n c ms When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They gathered every man according to his eating.
- Exodus 16:22 הָ/עֹ֖מֶר ptcl def.art + n c ms It happened that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one, and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.
- Exodus 16:32 הָ/עֹ֨מֶר֙ ptcl def.art + n c ms Moses said, "This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded, 'Let an omer-full of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt."
- Exodus 16:33 הָ/עֹ֖מֶר ptcl def.art + n c ms Moses said to Aaron, "Take a pot, and put an omer-full of manna in it, and lay it up before Yahweh, to be kept throughout your generations."
- Exodus 16:36 וְ/הָ/עֹ֕מֶר conj + ptcl def.art + n c ms Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
עמר (ʻômer) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “sheaf.” Scripture first uses it in Exodus 16:16. Spanning 14 verses in 5 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. Exodus dominates its distribution — 6 of 14 verses. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6016 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 14
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 14 distinct verses.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,910
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,910 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 14 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 14 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 11 verses · 79%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 21%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Sheaf 6×, Omer 4×, Among the sheaves 2×
- American Standard Version†: Sheaf 4×, Among the sheaves 2×, Omer 2×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Sheaf 5×, Omer 4×, Sheaves 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Omer 4×, Sheaf 4×, Sheaf of 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6016 across 14† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6016 across 14† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6016 across 14† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6016 across 14† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- omer
- sheaf
Word origin
I. n.m. Lv 23:11 sheaf (swath, row of fallen grain, WetzstZ.f. Ethnol. 1873, 273 (Syriac Dreschtafel), ag. him VogelsteinLandwirthschaftinPal. 61 who trans. heap of sheaves);—ע׳ abs. Dt 24:19; Lv 23:11, 12, 15, cstr. v 10; fig. of food (abs.) Jb 24:10; pl. עֳמָרִים lit. Ru 2:7, 15.
II. n.m. Ex 16:22 omer (cf. Arabic غُمَرٌ small drinking cup or bowl; relation to i. ע׳ obscure);—a measure, only Ex 16;—the measure itself v 18, 32, 33; amount measured v 16, 22; = 1/10 ephah v 36; 𝔊 γόμορ.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from עמר (ʻâmar) (H6014) — to bind sheaves.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
עָמַר
- 1. to be thick, tufty.—Denom. עָמִיר.
- 2. (cmp. חָמַר I) to heap up, pile. Ukts. II, 5 והבצלים שעֲמָרָן, Var. for שחמרן.—Denom. עוֹמֶר.
- (denom. of עוֹמֶר) to bind and pile sheaves; to harvest. Peah V, 8 המְעַמֵּר וכ׳, v. כּוֹבְעָה, a. חֲרָרָה. Y. Ber. IX, 13ᶜ top חרש זרע … קצר עי׳ וכ׳ he ploughed, he sowed …, he cut, piled up, threshed &c.; Bab. Ber. 58ᵃ עמר. Sabb. VII, 2. Y. Peah IV, 18ᵈ bot. בקוצר שורה ומעמר שורה when he cuts a row and puts it up in sheaves at a time; a. fr.
- (b. h.) (with ב) to make one’s self the master of; to make use of a person as a servant. Snh. XI, 1 (85ᵇ) (expl. Deut. XXIV, 7) אינו חייב עד שיכניסנו לרשותו he is not guilty of abduction, unless he brought the person to his own grounds; (oth. opin.) עד … וישתמש בו unless he brought the person to his own grounds and made use of him; Sifré Deut. 273. e.g. Deuteronomy 24:7
עֲמַר I
- , Pa. עַמֵּר ch. as preced. Pi. Targ. Ps. CXXIX, 7.
עֲמַר II
- (Syr. עמר P. Sm. 2918; Arab. ʿamar; cmp. עמד) to stay, dwell. Targ. Prov. XXX, 28 עָמְרָא (ed. Lag. a. oth. עמדא). Ib. XXV, 24 מעמר ed. Lag. (ed. Wil. מֶעְמַד).
עֹמֶר
- , pl. עְמָרִים, v. עוֹמֶר.
עֲמַר III
- (עמר I, cmp. עָמִיר a. אִימַּר) = h. צֶמֶר, wool. Targ. Ps. XXXIX, 12, v. גַּרְדֵּם. Targ. Deut. XXII, 11. Targ. Lev. XIII, 48; a. fr.—Ḥag. 15ᵇ, v. יוֹרֶה II. B. Bath. 74ᵃ, a. e. גבבא דע׳, v. גְּבָבָא. Yoma 71ᵇ; Zeb. 18ᵇ; a. fr.—גופנא(ד) ע׳ cotton, v. גּוּפְנָא.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 12 distinct written forms H6016 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הָ/עֹ֖מֶר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 16:22 | 2 |
| עֹ֣מֶר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 24:19 | 2 |
| בָ/עֹ֔מֶר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 16:18 | 1 |
| בָֽ/עֳמָרִ֔ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Ruth 2:7 | 1 |
| הָ/עֹ֑מֶר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 23:12 | 1 |
| הָ/עֹ֛מֶר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 23:11 | 1 |
| הָ/עֹ֨מֶר֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 16:32 | 1 |
| הָֽ/עֳמָרִ֛ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Ruth 2:15 | 1 |
| וְ/הָ/עֹ֕מֶר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 16:36 | 1 |
| עֹ֖מֶר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 23:15 | 1 |
| עֹ֛מֶר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 23:10 | 1 |
| עֹֽמֶר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Job 24:10 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6016, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 14 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 14 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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